Ambroise, L'Estoire de la Guerre Sainte, in French, fragment of a decorated manuscript on vellum a fragment, the upper part of a leaf bisected horizontally, 163mm. by 135mm., double column, 22 lines in black ink in an accomplished yet somewhat informal early Gothic bookhand, two large 5-line simple initials on recto in alternate terracotta-red and blue, recovered from a binding and hence with loss to the beginnings of a few lines in column 1 on recto and initial letters of lines in column 1 of verso and last letters of 2 lines of column 2 of verso, last 5 lines of each side separated from main body of fragment by a horizontal split part way across leaf where the fragment was folded around first gathering of book it was subsequently bound around, else in good condition and fully legible on both sides of leaf
Ambroise, L'Estoire de la Guerre Sainte, in French, fragment of a decorated manuscript on vellum a fragment, the upper part of a leaf bisected horizontally, 163mm. by 135mm., double column, 22 lines in black ink in an accomplished yet somewhat informal early Gothic bookhand, two large 5-line simple initials on recto in alternate terracotta-red and blue, recovered from a binding and hence with loss to the beginnings of a few lines in column 1 on recto and initial letters of lines in column 1 of verso and last letters of 2 lines of column 2 of verso, last 5 lines of each side separated from main body of fragment by a horizontal split part way across leaf where the fragment was folded around first gathering of book it was subsequently bound around, else in good condition and fully legible on both sides of leaf
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